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I dropped my son off at a birthday party of a friend. They were playing with a rope swing with a block of wood for a seat. No one was swinging on it, but the children were seeing how fast and high they could push the swing. (And the mother at the party apparently knew what they were doing because she said my child was doing it to.) The swing bouced off the tree and into my son's mouth. He had two front teeth completely knocked out and one vertically cut in half. They found one tooth and the 1/2 tooth, but not the third. Since it was Saturday, we couldn't find an open dentist (ours was out of town) and we took him to the emergency room to have the one tooth reinserted. (No novicane!!) They couldn't get the tooth all the way back in so they referred me back to the dentist. To make a long story short, (and after 5 different emergency room/dental/orthodonist visits in one week), the had to put braces on his top teeth to try to push up the one that couldn't be inserted all the way and space the one was was missing. He's going for root canals next week on the reinserted tooth (and maybe the 1/2 tooth...depending on how that one is holding up). As for the other missing tooth, my dentist said he will have to have some sort of bridge until he can get and implant when his mouth is done growing at 16 years old (if he has enough bone to even have one). When I asked my dentist for a bottom line...what would it cost to fix...he told he that HE had had his two front teeth knock out by a baseball when he was a kid (which is why he became a dentist) and that my son will have problems and his teeth will cost him money the rest of his life. He wouldn't give me any "ballpark" figure.
I am not a "sueing" kind of person and I do not want to go that route. (I've read a few posts on this site and, quite frankly, some people who are trying to get money for nothing ought to be ashamed of themselves.) I would prefer to settle with their insurance company. Their insurance company has contacted me. (No I have not and do not intend to sign anything.) But my question is this...how in the world do I know how much to ask the insurance company for?? I do not want my son...when he's 30 years old or so...to have to chose between replacing a failing implant and his other bills. (I myself have a 14 year old implant and have been told it's failing...and it was a failed root canal before that.) I also cannot afford the time a big legal case would take, as I've already paid the orthodontist $500 (no...he did NOT have braces before) and have not even gotten the emergency room bill or ANY of the dental bills.
By the way, when I picked up my son from this party, he was standing at the end of the driveway, crying, with his tooth in a baggie. The mother did not even come out to say ONE word to me...not "I'm sorry"...not anything. That REALLY makes me angry. And if he goes on a car ride longer than a couple of minutes, he starts to scream and scream! Apparently the vibration of riding in a vehicle is too much for his reinserted tooth.
Any research you can point me to or information on long term dental costs would be much appreciated.
Thank you.
I dropped my son off at a birthday party of a friend. They were playing with a rope swing with a block of wood for a seat. No one was swinging on it, but the children were seeing how fast and high they could push the swing. (And the mother at the party apparently knew what they were doing because she said my child was doing it to.) The swing bouced off the tree and into my son's mouth. He had two front teeth completely knocked out and one vertically cut in half. They found one tooth and the 1/2 tooth, but not the third. Since it was Saturday, we couldn't find an open dentist (ours was out of town) and we took him to the emergency room to have the one tooth reinserted. (No novicane!!) They couldn't get the tooth all the way back in so they referred me back to the dentist. To make a long story short, (and after 5 different emergency room/dental/orthodonist visits in one week), the had to put braces on his top teeth to try to push up the one that couldn't be inserted all the way and space the one was was missing. He's going for root canals next week on the reinserted tooth (and maybe the 1/2 tooth...depending on how that one is holding up). As for the other missing tooth, my dentist said he will have to have some sort of bridge until he can get and implant when his mouth is done growing at 16 years old (if he has enough bone to even have one). When I asked my dentist for a bottom line...what would it cost to fix...he told he that HE had had his two front teeth knock out by a baseball when he was a kid (which is why he became a dentist) and that my son will have problems and his teeth will cost him money the rest of his life. He wouldn't give me any "ballpark" figure.
I am not a "sueing" kind of person and I do not want to go that route. (I've read a few posts on this site and, quite frankly, some people who are trying to get money for nothing ought to be ashamed of themselves.) I would prefer to settle with their insurance company. Their insurance company has contacted me. (No I have not and do not intend to sign anything.) But my question is this...how in the world do I know how much to ask the insurance company for?? I do not want my son...when he's 30 years old or so...to have to chose between replacing a failing implant and his other bills. (I myself have a 14 year old implant and have been told it's failing...and it was a failed root canal before that.) I also cannot afford the time a big legal case would take, as I've already paid the orthodontist $500 (no...he did NOT have braces before) and have not even gotten the emergency room bill or ANY of the dental bills.
By the way, when I picked up my son from this party, he was standing at the end of the driveway, crying, with his tooth in a baggie. The mother did not even come out to say ONE word to me...not "I'm sorry"...not anything. That REALLY makes me angry. And if he goes on a car ride longer than a couple of minutes, he starts to scream and scream! Apparently the vibration of riding in a vehicle is too much for his reinserted tooth.
Any research you can point me to or information on long term dental costs would be much appreciated.
Thank you.